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European Championships of Street Magicians
The European Championships of Street Magicians
After 40 or so hours traveling I arrived in St Wendel with my Missis, Ulla Taylor and 15 month daughter Rubyanna.
Knackered, sweaty, laden with suitcases, baby toys and a pram. We made it to a cafe and met Georg the organizer, he somewhat reminded me of Fog Horn Leghorn. After a brief chat and coffee, we get to the digs I dump the bags, baby and collapse !!
Flickto a Spanish Magician I met in Portugal last year was there, an excellent card worker and great friend. together we both went to do a gig for 300 polictical party supporters after their 10 km walk.
The town major cooked sausages for everyone and talked some German of which we didn't understand.
Flickto and I did 10 mins or so each, me in English and him silent, the crowd seemed a bit dead but they had walked all day! I heard later they all enjoyed it and we got paid a bit more than expected, which was nice.
Later met with Spanish magician Fernando who was there to watch and learn.. ending up In a fantastic house truck with Parisian, Gilbert, a 30yr veteran of the street. He showed us a book he made of street performing in Paris 20 yrs ago including great pics of police arresting acts, stories and lies were exchanged till the early hours.
7.am, a giggling baby climbing over my jetlagged body and pounding head , it was time for breakfast. Typical Eurobrekky, bread, cheese meat and eggs mixed with coffee and orange juice seemed to fix the problems.
Today Flickto and I had a gig in Saarbruken. A town 40 kms from St Wendal, Flickto with his yellow tails custom tricycle and top hat was like the pied piper leading folk half way round the town.
Shows went well and we finished in the Irish bar for a few Guinness.
Back in St Wendel we met up with the other artists for food and beers supplied by Mr Georg.
Saw Ben aka Mago Bastardo a fellow I met over 10 years ago when he had been on the street for a month. Now a well healed street man with a trampoline acrobatic show. The only magic was that he was still alive he would say at the end of his set. Also was good to see Miss Minnetti old friend from Holland and Jo and Jake aka Mustapha and Daisy who I haven't seen for 10 years.
Pete Wardell, Humph and Steve Faulkner, 3 Covent Garden boys who never seemed to be more than a meter apart looked on like Huey Dewey and Louie.
A Cackle of Spanish folk were hooting enjoying life in the corner. Lotsa kids mingling and climbing, great for my daughter to play with new pals.
Beer, beer, beer, seemed to be Georgs motto as we swallowed and gulped. It was the wee hours again, great preparation for a 9am start!
The beginning of the Championships, we had 2 shows each it was hot and humid, the crowds were good. Bumped into the unstoppable Charlie Caper a good street comrade, fresh from FISM, he was jetlagged and tired, we shared coffee at the back stage tent, parted company and went to work.
I had an antique motorcycle race roaring through my pitch delaying the start, noisy and smelly, but they certainly got a good edge for me. Had a lot of fun and improvisation in that set with a drunk photographer and dreadlocked dog, probably my favorite of the weekend.
Out of the 30 or so acts there, only a few I would say were actual street magicians. Some magicians having their first experience on the street. Also jugglers/ escape artists/ Ballooners which I found weird as it was a street MAGICIANS festival ???
By 10 pm burnt out I went back to the digs to lay down for an hour before the midnight call at the Irish Pub,,, I missed it all !! Waking at 7am. Bright shiny and ready to go I must say,,
A few weary eyes showed for breakfast, Huey, Louie and Dewey arrived together, ate together, left together.
We watched a video of Flicktos magic marionette show,,,fantastic!
Off to work again, shows were shown, people were entertained some paid some did not. Ulla Taylors magic pavement art she was commissened to do was taking shape.
The back stage tent was full of props, sweaty costumes, fruit and mineral water, for some reason you couldn't get still water in that town.
Oh yeah and the wasps, they were everywhere fighting for your food and drink, no one got stung which was incredible.
By 6pm they were putting benches out for the final show. This show went on and on and on it was at least 3 ½ hours.
Great acts, a innovative juggling duo called xtrart, 2 fantastic clown mcs Linne and Riesling, a bloke called Noah who climbed a bendy lamppost, think of Funny Bones the film.
A mentalist and vent called Timothy Trust blew them away.
My favorite came on 3 times Johnny walker who drank Johnny Walker and proceeded to get more and more inebriated during his appearances.
Ted McCoy a German speaking Scott got 3rd prize.
Balloon twisting Tobi Van Deister was granted 2nd, great act but no magic,
1st went to the unstoppable Charlie Caper.
I wasn't in the competition as I live in Australia but was given a special comedy award..
Great acts for the finale but once again tooooo long a show in my opinion.
Food and drinks were provided from midnight. There were half a dozen left when Mr Caper cracked open the Single Malt bottle. The birds were tweeting when I finally laid down my head.
DAY 5, 9am Mouth feeling like the inside of a bird cage, orange juice was ingested, Geog turned up gave everyone T Shirts and paid us all some cash for expenses.
Then we went to work a free for all day, loads of crowds loads of acts the hats were mediocre the audiences were great. I saw Gilbert's show a flea circus with a brilliant ending and the best mechanical man I have seen he finished with a fire blow, very good character his 30 years experience shone true.
The Major cooked the food. Schnapps and beers flowed freely in the tent, kids scuttled between peoples legs and the Spanish partied loudly while the Huey Dewey and Louie sat together and looked on.
The Gig was good, I would liked to have seen more real street magicians there myself, and would have been good to have some small bottles of water for the artists on the pitches.
Some people were complaining about the lack of expenses and the small hats. I had some extra gigs and expenses as I came from Australia, my hats were okish but you can't expect massive donations as there were 30 plus acts and people can give a fiver to everyone.
Good partying and good socializing but hard work especially if you are up till 5am every night. Also I discovered the judges were not paid any travel expenses and had to get there off there own steam which I thought a bit off.
Overall, good fun good hospitality, but don't go expecting to make big bucks.
Next year Georg wants to make it a World Street Magicians festival so lets see some of you real workers in Germany.
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Thanks, Nick for making time for write-up
I was interested to hear something of what's going on in Europe, and in your life.
MagiCol. The presentation makes the magic.
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Yeah great Job Nick, I wanna see you this year!
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So I have to confess something. And it pains me to admit this. This is one of those lies I tell even myself. You know, the kind you've told yourself for so long that you are actually starting to believe it. Mainly because you'd be mortified if anyone knew otherwise. The funny thing is; you're probably the only person you know who doesn't realize this about you.
Here goes…
For longer than I care to admit I have been living my life with a glass half empty philosophy. I had convinced myself I was living nowhere near my "potential" (whatever the heck that means) and I believed I was failing at life.
That's very difficult for me to admit because in many ways I am a very confident person. But as the years of my young adult life had begun to pass I somehow found myself lost and looking at the map saying "where the hell am I? How did I get lost? I was going to accomplish big things here. BIG things!"
How did I get lost on my own path? Truthfully, I'm not sure. But I can certainly tell you where I lost my way…
I lost my way at that point where I allowed myself to believe that happiness was something off in the distance that had to be attained.
I started believing "someday" something magical would happen, and my life would be so complete that my heart would overflow with happiness, joy, and peace. Sure, I knew there would be an occasional bump in the road. But once I'd achieved that insurmountable level of happiness and peace I would, of course, be able to handle any adversity with the grace of a true superhero and settle right back into pure bliss!
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"IT" was out there waiting for me to finally make whatever perfect decision I would make that would cause my entire life to shift and change everything forever. "IT" was waiting for me to finally land the right job or to finally meet the right friends or to finally create the relationship I'd always wanted or to finally own that big home on the water or…blah, blah, blah.
I would sometimes feel sorry for myself and often would even feel somewhat angry. I was angry people I considered not to be as talented or as nice or as smart as I was turned out to be more successful. I started comparing the success of my life with that of others. I defined my success by whether my paycheck measured up to theirs or whose home was nicer, bigger, and had a more prestigious address. I would NEVER have admitted this to anyone, mind you. But secretly that's how I felt.
Wow…you wanna talk about a recipe for disaster!?!!
In the classroom and the workplace things are often measurable. The best of the best receive A's (or promotions and raises). Teachers and employers pat them on the back and tell them what a great job they're doing. Friends and colleagues ask them how they manage to get it all done with such ease. People look up to the high achievers.
I finally had to realize that life is NOT a classroom. What we learn in school teaches us many things but those things, while necessary for the work environment, are not necessarily conducive to navigating your life in its entirety.
In your life there really is no measuring stick to determine whether yours is better, worse or the same as anyone else. No one is in the same "class" in life. No one has the same teacher, the same assignments, the same schedule, or the same deadlines.
We all have different desires, different circumstances, different relationships, different dreams, and so on. There is no "A" to strive for, no piece of paper or degree you can attain that says, "Hey, you've mastered this level in your life, and you're ahead of so and so. Now it's time for you to strive for such and such."
In other words, your life cannot possibly be compared to anyone else; therefore, you certainly should not base your happiness on whether you believe your life measures up to someone else.
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Truth be told, we don't all really want the same things out of life anyway. If we were all the same the world would be a VERY boring place. And if only one person could win at life then that would make 99.9999999% of the planet colossal failures. That's not an idea I'm willing to accept.
The problem with this "happiness is something I will attain someday" mindset is that I'm never going to get to "someday" for a couple reasons:
I, myself, am not even sure what the goal, or "IT" is – so how will I know when I achieve it?
Even if I hit some sort of "goal", I would undoubtedly find another one to take its place.
If I'm always waiting for someday, then I'm not focusing on life right NOW.
You see, when I was growing up my mom did one thing EXTREMELY well: she raised me to believe I could do absolutely anything I wanted. And she was right. I excelled at everything I attempted to do from academics to athletics to cooking.
No matter what I tried to accomplish, if I set my mind to it, I conquered it. With that incredible sense of accomplishment also came a sense of always expecting the best from myself. By the best I am referring to having what some would consider fine clothes, nice cars, a big home, etc.
I fully expected to have a job title that would impress others, a paycheck that would afford me all the luxuries my heart could desire, a schedule which allowed me to travel to exotic places at the drop of a hat, and so on.
With expectations like these you can easily see why almost anyone would end up feeling like a failure. First of all these expectations were not realistic when painted against the canvas of my true hopes and dreams.
You see, more than anything, I wanted to be a mom. And once I was lucky enough to blessed with children a LOT of things in my life changed. My priorities completely did a 180…
My idea of shopping for clothes now consists of replacing things that have worn out and only buying what is comfortable. I no longer shop to impress others. I shop mainly for my kids.
My idea of where to live changed when I realized that big city living while cutting edge, fun and exciting was not going to be conducive to raising children in a safe environment. I now happily live in a small suburb where there's little hustle and bustle, but there are plenty of kids playing in the streets of our subdivision.
My idea of what car to drive changed from what looked impressive and served as a status symbol to what got me from home to work to the grocery store to the daycare without breaking down. It also had to be able to haul tons of groceries and every baby device known to man.
My idea of the ideal career changed from one where I was pulling in great money and cared little about job satisfaction to one where, though I may not be satisfied with my current role or salary, it pays the mortgage, and it's close enough to home and school that I'll never miss my kids' activities.
I began to realize that I'm obsessing about not reaching my full potential when the "potential" I'd concocted in my mind was not anything like what I truly wanted.
I know I have a life that many, many people would envy. I have a wonderful spouse who loves me, two healthy and beautiful children, a roof over my head with more than enough space for my family, and a job that pays the bills. With that said, why in the hell have I EVER been complaining?
My life has been based on some very pivotal moments where the decisions I made affected my life in dramatic ways. And I honestly wouldn't change much. If I could do it all again, I would only change what I majored in during college (the first go around). But even that small change would probably have not led me to this path. And I would NOT give up this life for ANYTHING.
With that said, I leave you with this thought for the new year…
If you are putting off being happy until you "someday" do "something," you are failing at life. This isn't a dress rehearsal; it's the real deal. If there are aspects of your life you don't like, take steps to change it. Be thankful for the blessings you do have and enjoy the journey.


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There will always be a reason to cling to the fence, to stay in the boat, to pretend I am okay with not pursuing all things deeply embedded in my heart (moms are good at pretending they are okay so they can be strong for others…).
But today was a miracle because I had been praying for guidance whether to go on a road trip to meet some other writers. I wanted to always. That has never been a question.
As an adult, money, babysitters, and time off play parts to factor in. I thought yesterday was the deadline and had a sort of lump in my stomach. A sad fellow, sulking and sucking down his last drop of wine sat there making a knot in my gut.
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CD: Welcome to Mindful Cyborgs Episode #25. Hey, Klint and Alex, it's Chris. How are you doing?
KF: Hey.
AW: Hey Chris. Hey Klint.
CD: Everybody wide awake?
KF: Yeah.
AW: Yeah.
CD: We're all feeling good? So, guys, Alex wrote a piece I think recently and we all were kind of interested and we talked about it and we love to pull on celebrities, CEOs. So, we have with us today Meatspace CEO Jen Fong-Adwent.
JF: Hi.
CD: Jen, you're obviously a mindful cyborg because you live in some type of GIF alternate reality. So, why don't you first give us kind of an overview of why Meatspace? I mean, where did you see the need?
JF: It was actually just an experiment between a colleague and I because she was doing a GIF library with WebRTC for the camera on your browser, and I have been doing chat experiments for a few years now. A lot of mixed media embedded interactions. Basically, experiments with social interaction and very limited forums with very limited effort by the user.
This was the first time around May when I just said hey, you think if you pressed enter and it recorded a few frames of your face as you were reacting as you were typing, we can do that and then my colleague so it was like, yeah, I fixed this. So, we did it and like 2 days we scrapped something together and we played with it internally and then it became public when I spoke in October at Portland and that was when it blew up and it went [unclear 0:02:29] Reddit, everywhere, and there was a lot of people that showed up like the first couple of days and there was a joke that it shut down Silicon Valley because everyone was just so mesmerized by all the GIFs of all these faces and some people were very famous and some people were just normal people. Some people weren't even tech. It was pretty crazy.
And then from that over the span of a month the community forums of regulars and then we had things we added after the fact like commuting from the client side so that you could ignore someone.
CD: I would talk to no one if I were to. So, technically, I mean basically the way this works is you go to the site, it asks to use your camera but it doesn't use your camera right away so for audience who just want to try it out they can try it out. You say yes to camera but it doesn't start recording but when you type a message and hit send, then it does . . . how many seconds of frames does it capture?
JF: It says 10 frames over 2 seconds. That's why it looks really jerky, yeah.
CD: All right. So, you got 10 frames over 2 seconds and a message after you hit send. It's definitely kind of addictive, like super addictive. I mean, it's like Snapchat meets Chatroulette.
JF: Yes, it's interesting people have never because this is I guess a new sort of remix of people who don't know how to bucket the whole thing and then I was curious because I heard a few people say that it was like it reminded them of Chatroulette a bit. Well, you don't actually go into random interactions with random channels with different people. It's always the same channel, the same people and you.
There's this social [inaudible 0:04:15] hiding your face and talking but people don't like that because they don't know your identity. So, you're more likely to be muted if you cover your camera.
CD: Yeah, I kind of like Chatroulette back in the day. But I like the fact there is this identity portion of it and we're seeing a lot of this, as we've talked about it on the show. Klint, I'm sure you're seeing a lot more of it now of where people are playing around with identity and what it means and the temporary nature of the net. Klint, now that you're hanging out here in Meatspace do you have anything meaty you want to tell me?
KF: No. I do have a question for Jen about what appeal you think it has besides that lack of anonymity insofar as there's just so many places already for people to go to hang out online I guess. For me I almost feel like a certain fatigue, social media fatigue because I've got Tumblr and Twitter, there's IRC, my inbox, my email inbox is always just a sterile nightmare and there's Facebook, but obviously there is a lot of people who are interested in it and I guess for me the thing that kind of came to mind is that there's always a certain appeal in not reinventing yourself necessarily but in finding a new fresh space so like when everyone is on Myspace and then Facebook opened up so that everybody could go in part of it what's nice about that was that you kind of got to start all over again, start adding people. It was a quieter conversation at first because not everyone was there yet. Do you think that's part of it or is there something else I'm missing or is it purely the lack of anonymity that Meatspace entails?
JF: It's interesting because I remember when I was playing around I have blog quotes about ephemeral chat from a year ago and like I remember back then a lot of people were like I don't get it. Anyone who wasn't a teenager just didn't get it. They were like why would you do that unless you're texting or something and now it seems to be more normal and now there is tons of iOS and whatever apps that are just like send anonymous this and that like Secretly and all those stuff.
CD: Okay. I'm personally addicted to Secretly.
JF: Really?
CD: Yeah. I don't know what it is but yeah, I totally get it.
JF: What is interesting is that everyone is sort of doing a different sort of thousand monkeys typing on thousand typewriters of this medium now trying to figure it out. Secretly seems to have hit a very specific kind of group of people. It apparently became a big place for people event at Silicon Valley to their contacts. I'm not really sure how Secretly works because I don't want to give them my phone number. Anything that asks me for my phone number I just bypass, like Snapchat you don't have to give your phone number so I just go around that.
I do think it's interesting because I think some people see parts of Meatspace and they think the direct like correlation with let's turn it into Yammer, then we'll make millions and I'm like well nobody likes Yammer so why would adding animated GIFs make it any better. It's like this is not about a full feature set thing. This is the art of tuning something for the audience and that takes time. This took about 3 months and it's not like millions of users because it's not meant for that system because it can't scale that way. It's meant to filter it out so that there's 1% of the people that actually come back and contribute to the community. There's an API that they can use that they can make mash ups and stuff to post to the service.
The Meatspace chat is open source. The TV part isn't but the main chat is open source so there's a bunch of people contributing and even using it internally in their own companies and whatever. This is different model because it's not about monetization first. It's about getting the community . . . getting the right people together and how we know who the right people are it's based on whoever stays and decides to shape organically the community.
AW: So, you're trying to develop the foundation. It's taking some time and it's kind of changed a little bit as you said. When we talked to, I think, it was back in December you talked about how it was a single channel and how that really made it more compelling because often you'll find that with services that have multiple channels there's just one really that people congregate in and that's where all takes place and the other ones become kind of like empty wastelands. But now you're doing this Meatspace.tv and you're offering it to particular people. You might want to explain a little bit but tell me about why that doesn't conflict with that original approach that we discussed.
JF: Because not everybody can create a channel in this case. You go to the homepage so like open another tab and just go to Meatspace.tv you'll see how many people just a handful of people and they're very strategically chosen and if you go to find and there's a little thing that tells you you can't find unless you're a Meatspacer and all those stuff. So, people know that you can't just have a bunch of people sign up and do whatever they want because that would also ruin.
It's a different kind of filter like this isn't a regular chat like me owning a channel. I'm not talking with the rest of the audience on the right side.
AW: So, you'll announce this for instance. So, that seems to be the difference where it's like this might be like this is more of an event space in some respects.
JF: Right. Yeah.
AW: As opposed to like a channel Meatspace and so it sounds like you're giving people like the capability to like suddenly like leave the main Meatspace channel. This is really a bad thing to happen, to use it as an event.
JF: Yeah. So, imagine if someone had . . . they're already working on a raspberry pie thing so you can wear a wearable camera that post to their channel while doing something. So, let's say they go driving, they go biking, running. They're going to an event. They're doing machinery like [inaudible 0:10:44] or lots of people are doing cooking shows.
AW: Oh really?
JF: Yeah.
AW: So, they'll cook and they'll share and they'll talk about what they're cooking and they'll use a remote camera for that for instance or something.
JF: Yeah. So, they'll usually in that case let's say point the laptop camera towards the cooking area and then we'll just have it automated and then they're cutting up the vegetables and then they're like or sometimes they'll just manually do it, they'll be like and now I'm putting this in and then you'll have people watching and they're like, ooh, what's that and then they're looking it up and pasting links and that was the one people were like we like this so maybe record it so that we can play it back later which brought in other ideas of doing let's say code sharing the tutorials and more normal things.
CD: It does kind of remind me of Max Headroom.
JF: Yes, exactly.
CD: And I kind of like that. I mean, I'm sitting here and I can't even focus on the podcast because I'm creating all these alternate versions of myself eating things.
KF: What are doing in that picture, Chris?
CD: I'm eating a mechanical bird.
KF: You kind of look like you're about to pull the pin out of a grenade with your teeth.
CD: Oh yeah, I guess that's possible.
AW: There goes the show.
KF: You can tell what the thing was.
CD: We've been capturing screenshots and blurring or blur out the non-people and we'll put them in the show notes for you guys to check this app.
KF: The non-people.
CD: Well, you know what I mean? I can't ask people's permission. I'm sure there are some Meatspace protocol around screenshotting those but . . .
JF: I think people are fine because this can be actually . . . they have been posted all over on media and they all seem to be quite entertained.
AW: Yeah, they do.
KF: I mean, it's sort of public space.
JF: So, I posted a video on my channel right now if you click on that the Meatspace moment. A community member made that and it highlights various GIFs from the community or events that happened and it's very heartwarming to watch, to look at that blog but you can feel the community members doing different things.
AW: And then there is the Brady Bunch one that I took a screenshot of and put in my post.
JF: Right, right.
AW: So, there's been lots of little things that have come out of this. One of the things that I think of when I see what you're doing here is there has been this premise that everything has to be unified and the IT world likes to talk about unified communications which is probably one of the most exciting terms I've ever heard in my life. Basically, though the whole effort of that is to centralize all the communication into one place. So, you can chat, you can have an activity stream, you can do webcasting and all of it is like everyone has a username. It's all kind of like every little moment is archived to some degree. You come along and you're developing this and it's entirely kind of like an ephemeral experience where there is like a channel for the Meatspace but you're not trying to build in like an event space in there. You're not trying to build this whole kind of unified world into one application. Is that purposeful? Is that really just because of the way people are communicating in this community or are there more reasons for that?
JF: Yeah, that is on purpose. I would never put the chat as part of the TV as one big thing. At best I'd be like here's a link to the other part but they work for different context and you can't measure what works for what audience unless they're completely separate and you can just completely play around with that as one part. The problem I find in tech is that when things get enterprised everything has to be together and I very anti that because I'm like nobody . . . it doesn't matter how smart you are to measure anything unless it's the smallest that can be because you have to make that perfect for that thing and it may never be any good for anything except that thing. So, that door handle's a really good door handle but it's such that holding soup or something. It's like that.
This is how I'm creating these products. It's like the chat is really good for generic chat and focusing on a certain kind of thing. The event stuff is not good in chat because people can't track that host and make references to what they are doing unless it turns into a message board forum real-time software which sounds like the worst idea ever which basically is Google Wave. It didn't work out because there's too much stuff that isn't really focused on just the moment of really the conversation rather than the way the data is constructed.
I tried to make this stuff so that it's like as if I'm talking to you in person and they don't remember everything we talk about.
CD: Jen, when Alex told me about this when I was Portland, I thought it was really, really kind of interesting and I actually did a presentation somewhere on kind of how much people were just worshipping this liquid identity and this disappearing of information. As I started exploring, I started getting really addicted to it. So, I think this is kind of very awesomely cool. Like everybody check it out we'll put a link in the show notes but if you're sitting there with your computer on you might want to read show notes, the fastest way to get to straight Meatspace and not the channel that we're all in that we do this, it's just Meatspace.es.
AW: I want to just say Jen that I love how the foundation for it though is the animated GIF and kind of the aspect of it. It's helpful for me to kind of correlate, I think, where you see kind of the world of IT and enterprise and how they're trying to do everything the opposite but this seems really like the best way to go. So, nice work.
CD: Jen, do you want to hang on for news and kind of just thoughts for the week?
JF: Yeah sure.
CD: Cool! Klint, you said you had some good stuff. So, what's up?
KF: One thing that I read this week that I thought was interesting is a medium post from Scott Smith on diminished reality as opposed to augmented reality.
CD: Isn't that a K-hole?
KF: The idea came from an app called place avoider which is like a life logging device but it can blacklist certain parts of your home like so just never take pictures in the bathroom, never take pictures in the bedroom that sort of thing but he kind of goes from there into thinking about how Google Maps, Google Earth blacks out certain areas that are top secret or classified and starts to wonder about a future where things like Google Glass where you just can't see certain things through them. Some of that's an older idea like what if you could just make homeless people invisible through augmented reality systems but an interesting example of how it's already starting to happen in some particular circumstances with some systems.
CD: I like the concept of diminished reality. One of the reasons I signed up for Simple was the geo-fencing because I thought this is kind of cool I know where I'm buying stuff like when you swipe your credit card but it would be even cooler if I could tell Simple if it's after 2:00 AM and I'm near any bar like just don't let me use my credit card.
KF: Or like you might have already run up a tab.
CD: 2:00 AM is probably too late.
KF: 2:00 AM so you already had crashed out of the bar.
CD: Or like between payday and 2 days later avoid them all. I cannot use the card at the mall. I don't know, I've always wondered . . . I like the concept of diminished reality. Anything else cool happening since we last . . . you had a chance to see "Her". We talked about that last show. Anything else cool you read this week because I really like that?
AW: It almost seems like diminished reality too is a way to kind of like pull back and then maybe then pull forward again with like a kind of a fuller experience of augmented reality. It seems like they really kind of work together.
CD: I wanted to ask you guys about narcissism. I've been reading a lot of articles and there seems to be some real weird backlash and I think narcissism kind of sits at the corner of this ephemeral chat, this kind of liquid identity, the selfie. It's all kind of weird. Do you guys have any positions on narcissism and if you think we're in a narcissistic epidemic or are we just escaping in some way to these very temporal short lived narcissistic episodes?
AW: Well, I think we're definitely seeing. I mean, the startup movement is kind of an example of the narcissism. Well, I think there's also then . . . there's a myth of tech, there's a myth of Silicon Valley, there's a myth of the CEO, there's a myth of the startup and I think that all has roots back to kind of this belief that the CEO of a new startup is godlike or the startup itself is kind of like this godlike effort. I think there's a feeding of narcissism in that but also on the flipside I think that you see people again talk about multiple identities and then multiple identities that we have and sometimes you may be more narcissistic in some than others but the startup one is the one that comes first to mind.
CD: Klint, we talked about this when we talked about prison shock in present shock (digiphrenia) being able to be in more place at one time. You got to love this.
KF: One is that it's just another example of the lid kind of being lifted like the internet and connectivity lifting a lid on something that was already going on. I mean, how many people have over the decades been spending time singing into a hairbrush in front of the mirror or whatever and no one ever knows about it until they start singing into YouTube and putting it on the internet. I mean, are people more vain than before or are they just sharing that vanity now?
CD: What I notice is some areas, Klint, they seem to be super vain and some areas they escape too like Meatspace maybe. I don't know. Am I overanalyzing it?
KF: Yeah, I'm just skeptical as to whether this is a new phenomenon or if it's just us getting a better look at what people do behind closed doors already or maybe it is more vain info sharing it instead of just doing it in your bedroom but I don't know, I don't think in some ways it's that big a deal but assuming though that there is more to it, I don't know, I come back to one of my themes of just the anxiety that's produced by this hyper competitive [inaudible 0:21:18] capitalist society that we live in today that people are really anxious and really need more validation than ever before that returning to these networks to try to get some reassurance that we're okay, that our lives have meaning.
CD: So, Jen, you wrote about this in your blog. I doubt if I could get a link from you or by Alex. You wrote a blog about this sort of thing but do you understand kind of my two polarizing points of view, right? So, you've got the selfie and all the glorification of who you are and then you got the opposite end of it. I don't want to bucket Meatspace in there but all of these very temporary kind of things and in between you got all the variations of how you might act different on one network then another network. I mean, I'm sitting here in my t-shirt and underwear and I didn't plan on being on Meatspace but I mean, I don't care, it's Meatspace, right? So, I'm okay with that. I bet you can wax poetic on this.
JF: Yeah, it's interesting because I think the problem is part of . . . depends on the culture too like North American culture is in itself very kind of conflicted about those stuff. We are puritan conflict with the selfies are bad but I'm obsessed with myself all the time or I'm totally against gay marriage but I secretly have a gay love. I guess it's like this stuff that just like just get over it. So, in that respect it's like I think selfie isn't one bucket and neither is Chatroulette as the webcam interaction. It's like this is really just . . . this won't work for everyone either like I don't think all the people on Facebook would want to be doing stuff like Meatspace or like Snapchat. It's a very small percentage of people that do it.
Usually, a lot of younger people because they're sort of figuring themselves out and stuff but with the older generation it's sort of like it's half and half. Anyone in their 30s and older they're just kind of like generation X and XY. It's a little, you know. Either they get it or they don't because they're like I've a family. I don't do this crap. I don't play games or they're just totally into this because they experiment the technology and I think the difference with a lot of these is how . . . it's harder with stuff like Secretly and Snapchat because I don't know how you could community out of that. So, it becomes very focused on let's just show body parts or send dirty things. That's what people think of it as.
CD: It's weird just for Secretly because I'm just sort of playing around with it this week. I really like the idea that I get feedback on stuff I probably wouldn't say out loud and I can't think of another service where I've never been able to do that except for maybe post secret. I never send in a postcard and then what's this text one that people were talking about yesterday W-T what? That's one kind of strange because that one just sends out a random text anonymously to your friends and then you got the opposite side of it with let's make jelly so people can answer like random questions of things and take pictures of. It's very confusing in some ways and in some ways it's very comforting because I don't feel safe often and like in Meatspace I actually kind of feel safe. I don't know, for me personally there's a safety issue to all of those that I need these things to feel safe.
JF: That is weird because normally I used to be very camera shy but with things like this it's like I don't even care anymore I wake up in bed and just be. These days you're going to go when did that start happening and it was interesting because there was a French invasion, a lot of French girls that came like around in their early 20s that were going to university. They came in because it was posted on a blog that they all read, a fashion blog called Mademoiselle because they came in there was just too many French people that were eating up the main channel but that was when I made the executive decision that we should have a French channel for them so that they can have their cultural means.
AW: Is that still pretty busy that channel?
JF: It's not as crazy as it was but it's basically the same as the main channel. So, the main channel regulated to about 400 to 600 a day visits of regulars that kept coming back with a return rate of like let's say over 70% and then the French channel was more or less dropped that too so now we have about a thousand in total which seems interesting. It's almost like there's this weird [inaudible 0:26:06] number that just kind of settles it to like 500-ish each channel and that's just the way it is. I mean, I can't really make people come in. It's just whoever wants to come in and create communities out of it.
But the interesting thing with this whole process is that with Meatspace the selfie is not the same as Snapchat I don't feel.
CD: No, this is completely different. I like it.
JF: If a service were to take just like there's react messenger which takes a picture of you with the message but it's a frozen picture and they kind of blew that temporarily. I don't know how they're doing now. It's an iOS app. It's all related. It's like this too and I'm not sure if it's an ephemeral or I don't think it is. I think it's only long-time ephemeral like after a certain number of messages I think they cut off or something. But in this case it's different and I'm trying to figure out what it is and I think that just helps but I don't think they're the main reason why this community exists necessarily and I'm still trying to figure that out like I just know it's not that because if that was the case, then would Facebook implementing this make them like completely blow up, yes/no. Has their other launches Facebook poke which was a kind of Snapchat which didn't work out.
CD: No. I used to poke for a day and gave it up.
JF: And it was a better UI. It looked nice. It's not really the design.
CD: No, and it's weird. I tweeted this last night on one of my personalities that I would totally go back to using Vine if I didn't have to go into a separate app. If Twitter were to just put some Vine functionality in it because you can take a picture, I would use it but the fact that I've got to use the whole separate Vine UI makes me crazy.
Any other stories, Alex or Klint?
AW: No, I'm pretty good.
KF: I don't have anything.
CD: We're just Meatspaced, aren't we?
AW: Yeah, that's about it.
CD: We're overwhelmed with the meat. Okay. Well, you can check us out. We'd probably be poking around either South by Southwest and March by the time this show comes up you'll see us there. Theorizing the Web April 25th over in Brooklyn if you want to check out Nathan Jurgenson's thing. We got Cyborg Camp and Buddhist Geeks all coming up in later in the fall.
Jen, are you on Twitter? How can people find you?
JF: Yep. I'm Edna Piranha if people know how to spell piranha.
CD: It's beautiful. It was nice meatspacing you. I don't think I've ever said that like that. Okay, everybody we'll see you in 2 weeks. Thanks so much. We want to thank Aaron Jasinski for doing our artwork. Ross Nelson: Brown Hound media for mixing the show. You can find us on every social media thing going. Maybe one day we'll get a Meatspace channel for Mindful Cyborgs. Thanks so much and we'll see everybody in a week. Take care.
JF: Bye.
KF: Bye everybody.
AW: Bye.


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Posted on Sunday, October 23, 2005
The Colorado Kid
Me, I'm used to buying Stephen King novels by the pound. I usually get the first installment and then come back sometime after payday to get the final few pounds that will finish the story. He does go on. Normally, 184 pages would be barely enough room for Stephen King to clear his throat and sing a few warm-up notes, so his slim new book The Colorado Kid seems particularly spare. It came out just this week, and I read those 184 pages in one sitting.
King is predicting that readers will either love or hate this book—no middle ground. I guess I would fall into the first category, although I did suffer one minor disappointment. There's a scene in which a character slips around the corner to a Denver Starbucks—in April of 1980. And, although it's hard now to envision that lost era when there was still such a thing as an urban street not punctuated with multiple Starbucks stores, I know for a fact that Starbucks had not metastasized beyond Seattle at that early date. So there. One picky point for me.
But such trivial matters are not why Stephen King predicts there will be a fair number of readers who may end up hating this book. Instead, it's because he has either broken such new and unstable ground as to make even the most steadfast reader queasy (that's the charitable interpretation) or because he has broken the A#1 cardinal mystery writers' rule: After developing a compelling mystery, he purposely declined to solve it. He left all those open issues embarrassingly open, all those loose ends still flapping in the coastal breeze. His recent novels frequently include the line, "Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back." Nevertheless, The Colorado Kid includes no satisfaction in this regard, only a celebration of the sort of unknown that may kill cats, but enriches our own lives—at least, if you really think about it.
Did you ever have the experience as a kid of looking at a mountain of prettily wrapped boxes under the Christmas tree, and realizing before the end of winter vacation that they held far more fascination for you than their contents ultimately did? The Colorado Kid is just such a present—one that you can lift and rattle and examine for clues, but one that is ultimately never opened. The paper and bows remain intact. It will always be as pretty and compelling as the December day it appeared under the tree, but at the price of never knowing, not for sure, what's hidden within the box. Each reader will have to decide for himself if that's a fair price to pay.
For me, I think it is. As King himself points out in his afterword, we all live with mysteries, many of which will never have solutions. If you don't believe that contemplating these mysteries has value nevertheless, than you must believe, for example, that religion has no value. What is religion if not a speculation about what becomes of us after this life? Surely this is a mystery that none of us will have sure answers to while we live. But for my money, it's not just the big mysteries that are worth contemplating. I have several smaller ones that I find myself returning to again and again, although I know the answers to my favorite mysteries are as extinct as the dinosaurs. That doesn't keep me from reviewing them in the dark hours before I fall asleep. I'll share my top three with you over the next couple of weeks.
Do you have any mysteries that you have to live with? The kind that will never be solved?


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Robert Kiyoshi Sasaki
Posted On July 31st, 2013 - Honolulu Star-Advertiser
July 28, 2013
Robert Kiyoshi Sasaki, 72, of Honolulu, a vice chairman at Alexander & Baldwin Real Estate Services, died in the Queen's Medical Center. He was born in Honolulu. He is survived by wife Vivian, son Robert C. "Bobby," daughter Jessica L., mother Maizie and brothers John and Richard. Visitation: 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Christ United Methodist Church, 1639 Keaaumoku St. Services: 10:30 a.m. Luncheon to follow. Casual attire. No flowers.
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Board Change
6 October 2016
Stellar Diamonds plc
("Stellar" or the "Company")
Board Change
Stellar Diamonds plc, the London listed diamond development company focused on West Africa (AIM: STEL) announces the resignation of non-executive director Luis da Silva with immediate effect. Luis will be stepping down to focus on his role as chief executive of GB Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: GBL) as it debt finances and advances the Farim phosphate project in Guinea Bissau into development and production.
Stellar Chairman, Lord Daresbury commented:
"Luis' knowledge and experience of exploration in West Africa has been invaluable to Stellar and as a founding director he has been a great support to the Company since its inception as it has advanced to the stage of mine development on the Tongo project in Sierra Leone. I would like to thank him for all he has done for Stellar and wish him well for the future."
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) 596/2014.
About Stellar Diamonds plc
Stellar is an AIM quoted (AIM: STEL) West African focused diamond company with projects at the trial mining and mine development stages in Guinea and Sierra Leone.
For further information contact the following or visit the Company's website at www.stellar-diamonds.com.
|Karl Smithson, CEO
Philip Knowles, CFO
|Stellar Diamonds plc
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The Humorless Twit's Time Management 101 | November 2010
If you're the one who actually reads my column, thanks. You've seen me lament numerous times on these pages how busy I am and how it's only getting worse. Because I never seem to have time for myself—not even in the sanctity of my sanctuary, the john—I've become a masterful multi-tasker (or as some put it, multi-slacker).
You see, I'm married, we have a toddler, I have a dog (notice how I wrote WE have a toddler but I have a dog… don't ask why…), I have a side business in addition to my full-time day job (which entails a daily commute that's just shy of an hour, each way), and my hobby is "sleeping."
My new favorite pastime (besides the previously mentioned "sleep") is quickly becoming blowing everything and everybody off and playing with my young son, who can only babble yet makes more sense than 99 percent of the people I have to deal with on a daily basis.
It takes a lot to be able to do as much as I do in a day, which explains why I don't so much fall asleep as I pass out when I hit the bed. So, for those of you who are as pressed for time as I am—or maybe you're more pressed for time than I am—I offer the following tips for time management. If you think you don't have time now, just wait, the holidays are coming. So make sure to, ahem, make some time and read my tips below.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #1: Use mass transit for your commute. I ride the train to work nearly every day and I bring my laptop along so I can play games and goof off, er, I mean, work and do productive stuff like write this column.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #2: Use disposable stuff. The greenies and environmentalists among you are going to want to kill me. But I use disposable plates, forks, spoons, etc. as much as I can. The good news is, I rarely can. My wife usually serves me my food and she absolutely HATES using paper plates and the like (and she hates to see me use them, too, so she doesn't let me). She'll serve herself two small bites of something dainty for a snack and she'll use all the silverware in the house and half the plates.
Me, I hate washing dishes. My food choices are not based on what I'm in the mood for, but rather whatever requires the most minimal usage of utensils and cookware to make and eat. I'm the kind of guy who waits for food to get down to one serving in the fridge then I eat out of the container. Without a fork or spoon.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #3: Brush your teeth while you're, ahem, otherwise occupied in the john. I brush my teeth while I… I'll spare you the details. I've also been known to walk around the house and do chores with one hand as I brush with the other.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #4: Make phone calls while you're, ahem, otherwise occupied in the john. You can return phone calls to people who annoy you while you're on the pot, like I do. Family, in-laws, bill collectors, irritating acquaintances who want desperately to be promoted to "friend," etc. Just be sure there isn't an obvious porcelain echo when you talk.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #5: Eat while you're, ahem, otherwise occupied in the john. Okay, I admit this one's so gross even I don't do it. But it sure sounds like an efficient use of time, doesn't it? And if you stay in the john long enough after eating… okay, forget I wrote that.
TIME MANAGEMENT TIP #6: Sleep while you write your Flamenco column. I do this one all the time. Kind of obvious, huh? As a matter of fact, as I write thmsl acm mxzkxx .x lx z l. . iadc98WEFJW


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It sounds more like a feature.
The New Forum beta test - complaints and suggestions
That's what we are about to find out.
I have evaluated many of your sub-20 character posts. I haven't really seen any that are great contributions. The forum would have been much improved had they been lengthened. I also noticed that almost all of them were over 15 chars, so I'll compromise and lower the limit to 15.
Exactly fifteen
I think 15 is good
Not a complaint or suggestion. As someone who is currently paying for internet per MB on a satellite connection in Antarctica, I just want to compliment the Discourse devs for making a forum that uses almost no bandwidth.
It does indeed use less because instead of loading the entire HTML page you are only loading that once and mostly making API calls with just JSON data for the new posts and such.
Also, things like cache headers and such are all properly set, so your browser isn't requesting things it already has.
Ah right. I guessed it was only downloading new data as needed.
It used to be that crew internet on these cruise ships charged per minute. That way it would be a race against the clock, so I'd visit loads of websites and open loads of tabs, then disconnect, and then read all the pages. I'd chat as quickly as possible to Juliane, and usually FaceTime would be the quickest and easiest way.
Now being charged for data, I can stay connected for ages and as long as nothing starts trying to download updates in the background (I've turned all such options off) I can stay online as long as I want, and chat as long as I want via Messenger, and it hardly uses anything. And because this forum hardly takes any data either, I've been able to keep up to date and join in conversations I wouldn't normally have bothered with on previous work trips.
I have a similar problem. When I travel for work there are cell data dead zones. I typically stop before entering them and load up a bunch of large articles I want to read later. Unfortunately, many websites I visit have added refresh calls so after I enter the dead zones the page tries to refresh itself and it goes away…
Also, the quote function appears to be somewhat erratic on mobile. Sometimes it shows up, other times… Nothing.
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after I enter the dead zones the page tries to refresh itself and it goes away…
[/quote]Mobile safari and Firefox both have reader mode, that usually takes care of those shenanigans.
Fixed the automatic posts from the web site to the new forum. I forgot to change the http to https in the web site code when I changed the forum.
How do you mark spoiler text?
Like this y'all
We can't see what you did?
[details=Summary]This text will be hidden[/details] The hide details option wasn't working for me before.
Yup still isn't
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EDIT: Weird doing it from the button didn't work. but copying and pasting that did.
Ah, I had just been using <details> + <summary> up to now. Glad to know there's a dedicated equivalent that's shorter to type!
Could you explain how that works?
The code Scott posted works fine and is easier to use, so you should probably just use that. But if you want to use the HTML version elsewhere, there's a detailed explanation here.


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HIV-infected Women Experience Worse Treatment Outcomes After Release from Jail
According to Yale News, a Yale study has uncovered significant gender differences in the treatment outcomes of HIV-infected jail detainees who are transitioning to life outside jail, with women faring much worse than men. The study appears online in the American Journal of Public Health.
Yale News reports that "in the United States, the HIV epidemic is highly concentrated among those in the criminal justice system. One sixth of all people living with HIV/AIDS transition through jail or prison annually. In addition, the criminal justice population has high numbers of people who experience economic or social instability, psychiatric disorders, and substance use disorders. These conditions have an adverse impact on treatment outcomes for those infected with HIV, and also interfere with HIV prevention and treatment efforts. Unlike prisons, jails house individuals who are pre-trial or have short sentences, leading to rapid turnover that is particularly destabilizing."


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MoJ scraps legal aid restrictions for victims of domestic violence
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Time limits preventing victims of domestic violence from obtaining legal aid for court hearings will be scrapped from January, the Ministry of Justice has announced.
The heavily criticised restrictions, which have resulted in large numbers of women confronting abusive ex-partners without representation, will also be relaxed to accept evidence from victim support organisations.
Confirming the new guidelines for the Legal Aid Agency, the justice minister, Dominic Raab, said: "We have listened to victims' groups and carefully reviewed the criteria for legal aid for victims of domestic abuse in family cases.
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Drugs and alcohol abuse destroy the lives of millions of people all over the world. The United States has many cases of teenagers and young adults being addicted to the drugs of their choice. It is a dangerous place to be if you are an addict.
An interesting story that I found online was one about a woman by the name of Mindy. The story was posted on fairbankscd.org (https://www.fairbankscd.org/mindys-story). Mindy was the kind of kid that enjoyed art and hanging out with friends. The story says that she never had a problem with alcohol or drugs. She sounded like she was a well-rounded person that was eventually going to go down a bad path because of a guy that she met.
Her boyfriend was a heroin addict. He offered her the drug several times. She refused always and then on one day he stabbed her with a heroin needle. As many treatment centers already know, the drug is highly addictive. Even using it one time can cause you to become addicted. Her body developed a physical dependency on the drug.
Like many addicts, she turned to a life of heroin abuse. She began lying and stealing from her parents. Her behavior began to change and a whole new Mindy was being brought out. Many addicts experience this type of behavior because heroin causes your body to crave the drug and physically need it. If you don't get the drug, you actually become angry and can have major withdrawals that are painful to go through. Some addicts resort to a life of prostitution.
Eventually she was expelled from school. It was clear that she needed help, but her parents were unsure about what they were going to do. To make a long story short, she got help from an addiction treatment center called Fairbanks. She was there for 6 weeks. I wish that I could say that Fairbanks was a miracle cure for her. However, her story tells us that she faced relapse around the holidays at times.
The good thing is that she told the staff about what was happening with her relapses. Mindy found help at last through exercise. She eventually put everything together that she learned at the treatment center and working out. Mindy is now living a sober free life. She is like many others that struggle with alcohol and drug abuse. She had to find something that worked for her. The founder of Alcoholics Anonymous Bill Wilson said that he found sobriety when he turned to his faith in Jesus Christ. He found that it kept him sober.
Mindy learned to be honest with herself and others about what is going on in her life. Rehabs teach you about honesty and getting in touch with yourself. People that do not have honesty in their hearts often say that they cannot become sober. Being honest simply means that you are not going to go against what you really believe in. It is all about talking through your problems and understanding that you must take responsibility for your actions.


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Can a Movie Help Stop Bullying-Related Suicide? A Girl Like Her Tries
The movie uses a faux-documentary style to show what's really going on in American schools
When a girl named Jessica attempts suicide in the new filmA Girl Like Her , everyone at school points the finger of blame at Avery, a popular clique leader who's been hounding her for months. And since Jessica was wearing a hidden camera to document her daily indignities, there's plenty of proof of Avery's cruelty.
As the above clip shows, Avery could give Regina George a run for her money in the mean girl department. But the movie isn't a witch hunt. In fact, viewers may leave the film more concerned about therapy for bullies than for the bullied.
Writer and director Amy S. Weber (who also plays the filmmaker in the pseudo-documentary) says the plot has been on her mind for decades, but she took direct inspiration from the death of Phoebe Prince , an Irish high school student who was bullied mercilessly when she moved to Massachusetts and took her own life in 2010. Her tormentors were prosecuted on charges ranging from harassment to assault.
"We as a society have learned that people who project their pain, people who abuse, are monsters," says Weber. "When they hurt others, our innate response and reaction is to protect the one they're hurting." Of course, it's right to protect the innocent. But when it comes to teen bullying, it's easy to forget that the bullies are often in pain themselves.
A Girl Like Her hints at Avery's torment through awkward encounters with her self-involved mother and unresponsive father. Meanwhile, Jessica's parents are completely blindsided by her overdose—they had no clue she was being bullied. Weber is careful not to blame parents for these tragedies, but she says she hopes the film will start conversations among teens and parents alike about how adults contribute to the bullying epidemic.
Witnessing bullying, as one student explains in the movie, is "as if we were all zebras and we were watching one of our fellow zebras being eaten by a lion." A Girl Like Her provides a potent remember that, bully or victim, they're all zebras.
Correction: The original version of this story misstated the name of the character in A Girl Like Her who attempts suicide. It is Jessica.


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Anti-abortion bill killed in GOP-controlled Senate
It's not a good day when you're a conservative Republican and can't even get your anti-abortion bill out of the Republican-controlled Senate.
But that's what happened Thursday, and to be honest, it wasn't a surprise. Two Republicans joined with their Democratic colleagues this morning to kill an anti-abortion measure carried by Sens. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud and Vicki Marble of Fort Collins.
The bill, known as the Women's Reproductive Information Guarantee for Health and Transparency (RIGHT) Act, requires women to wait at least 24 hours after initially seeking an abortion. Doctors must inform the woman about long-term physical and psychological risks, a description of abortion reversal procedures (which is not scientifically-based or backed by the nation's leading ob/gyn organizations), as well as information on the father's liability for child support.
Groups like Planned Parenthood say the bill is just another effort to restrict or block women's access to abortion services. A similar bill ran in the House last year and was killed in the the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee.
Today's bill died when two Republicans, Sens. Beth Martinez-Humenik of Thornton and Don Coram of Montrose, voted against the measure with the Senate's 17 Democrats*, and the bill died on a 19 to 16 vote.
Martinez-Humenik represents a district that is more or less evenly divided among Republicans, Democrats and unaffiliated voters, and is no stranger to opposing this measure; she was the deciding vote to kill a similar bill in 2015 in the Senate's Health and Human Services Committee. This year, the bill went through the Senate State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee and won passage on a 3-2 party-line vote. The bill might have normally gone to the health committee, but that's where Martinez-Humenik is its vice-chair.
Photo: Sen. Kevin Lundberg of Berthoud
Correction: earlier version incorrectly said Martinez-Humenik and Coram voted with 17 Republicans.
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|Legion Post 170 to install flags up and down Main Street
|Saturday, November 11, is Veterans Day. To show respect for this annual federal observance, veteran members of the American Legion and Sons of the American Legion organizations in Westcliffe are installing up to 50 U.S. Flags along Main Street. According to Legion Post 170 public affairs officer Bob Dreher, This is our visible reminder to remember and respect those among us who have stepped up to serve in the U.S. military. Additionally, President Trump has proclaimed the entire month of November 2017 as National Veterans and Military Families Month. Veterans Day originated as Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. The name Armistice Day was then changed to Veterans Day. This special day has been observed every year since 1919. During the American Revolution at least 15 percent of the overall population is estimated to have served in either the Continental Army or state militias actively to fight against the King's tyranny. During WWI more than 4.7 million Americans served in the military. Those who served represented 4.6 percent of the U.S. population. WWI U.S. losses were 116,516 deaths and approximately 320,000 sick and wounded. Today, approximately 1.4 million people are serving in the U.S. armed forces, according to the latest numbers from the Defense Manpower Data Center. That means that only 0.4 percent of the American population is active military personnel defending our country, Constitution and worldwide U.S. interests. The VA estimates that approximately 23 million or 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives. Lets all remember this Veterans Day that every person who enters the United States military swears a solemn oath to support and defend our Constitution and our Country against all enemies both foreign and domestic and to obey the orders of the President and their officers, said Dreher. A Veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount of up to and including their life. This applies to all; from a combat soldier to a cook or clerk; whether enlisted or an officer; male or female. Every Veteran has earned special honors.
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|Acclaimed Army veteran to be guest speaker at Vets Day banquet
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We are pleased to announce that SU Scotland has been gifted a property which we believe will enhance our ministry with children and young people in Scotland.
Thanks to the remarkable generosity of its present owners, SU Scotland will take ownership of Gowanbank House in Darvel, Ayrshire at the beginning of July 2017.
Presently run as a Bed and Breakfast which utilises only some of the rooms, we hope to create bed spaces for around 40-45. Detailed work is still to be done on the kind of activities we will run at Gowanbank but as the Board and Leadership Team prayerfully explored the possibility we sensed a strong connection between our current strategic focus on "Growing the Team", with its emphasis on training and equipping and the provision of a property well suited to smaller groups in an extremely pleasant environment. We also see potential for development of work best done with lower numbers; work with children and young people with Additional Support Needs, more niche residential events with less demand for outdoor activities, groups from smaller churches etc.
You can see more images of the house at www.gowanbankhouse.com/interior-gallery.
Given the current financial pressures on SU Scotland, the Board and Leadership Team have carefully weighed up the situation and take confidence from the shared sense of God's leading in saying 'yes' to this remarkable offer. Gowanbank will be self-financing to the highest extent possible, and should not lean on general funds to the detriment of existing activities.
We are delighted to announce that Michael Cook, in addition to his continuing role as Lendrick Muir Centre Director, will oversee the transition of Gowanbank to SU Scotland and its initial development as a centre for SU Scotland ministry. It is difficult to think of someone better suited to take on that role.
Please do pray that God will lead us on to see Gowanbank become a place of blessing for many.